SEGA has released a new title as part of their SEGA Forever program designed to bring a variety of old titles back to game play on newer devices. Super Monkey Ball is the newest title to get the resurrection treatment from the SEGA Forever program, having been released in 2012. Along with the main title, users will get four mini games included.

Let me go ahead and apologize for the decrease in productivity you guys are going to see from Talk Android this week, since the Steam Link streaming app is now officially available in the Play Store. It’s still in beta, but for all intents and purposes you can now access your entire Steam library on your smartphone. Goodbye, free time.

If you’re a big PC gamer, you’ve probably heard of or used Valve’s Steam Link for streaming your games to a television. It’s a useful little gadget that saves you the hassle of running long HDMI cables all over your house, especially if you have a decent router. I’ve invested in two of them already, actually.

On this unofficial holiday, Disney and Lenovo announced a new update to the Star Wars: Jedi Challenges app that makes it possible for two players to engage in a lightsaber duel against each other in an augmented reality experience. The new feature is called Lightsaber Versus Mode. Lenovo says the new feature is “the first time two players can play simultaneously while being able to see the other player’s lightsaber in AR.”

PUBG Mobile has officially been updated to version 0.4.0, and it’s a pretty sizable update with some new features and control options to improve your game. The biggest changes are a new Arcade Mode, a Training Ground, and a Dusk setting.

In the quest for Battle Royale supremacy, two games have moved way ahead of the pack: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite. While PUBG undoubtedly has a substantial advantage regarding general realism, Fortnite took the opposite route and is breaking new ground with its innovative and fun approach. Each game has its inherent characteristics. Whether or not those are positive or negative ultimately depends on gamer preference.

Having been forces to be reckoned with for quite some time now both in the console and PC platforms, it was only a matter of time before one of them hopped onto mobile devices. Luckily for us, they both did. Here’s a blow-by-blow comparison of both games’ pros and cons on the mobile platform.

In case you somehow missed it, we are getting very close to the release of of a huge MARVEL Avengers movie that claims to be the biggest “crossover” in cinematic history. With so many characters coming together for the theatrical release, it only makes sense that something similar would be done in the gaming market. Thus we have MARVEL Strike Force hitting the Google Play Store this week. Released by FoxNext Games, Strike Force is a strategic role-playing game that gives players the ability to play as their favorite MARVEL superhero – or super-villain if one is so inclined – in a battle to save the planet against a common enemy.

Depending on your age, you may remember the Tamagotchi craze that spread from Japan 20 years ago that saw you care for a digital pet inside a small toy with a LCD display. It was even more frustrating than Flappy Birds because the pets seemed to be extremely delicate and prone to dying on a whim. If you’ve reminisced about Tamagotchi, wishing that you could relive your childhood, you’ll be happy to find out that BANDAI NAMCO has finally released its My Tamagotchi Forever game globally.

Gamers who are interested in a mobile version of Player Unknown’s BattleGrounds (PUBG) battle royale game have been watching to see when it might be available for their market. In a bit of a twist on many typical game releases, PUBG Mobile first surfaced for the Chinese market back in December. Since then, consumers in Western markets have had to wait for a release. Yesterday PUBG Mobile was spotted in the Google Play Store for Canada.

HBO’s hit series Westworld is getting a mobile game adaptation, and as of today you can pre-register for the game to get some extra stuff when it does release. As a twist, the more users that pre-register, the more rewards everyone will get when the game unlocks.

After testing this feature since December, Microsoft is rolling out the party chat capability for their Xbox platform to both Android and iOS clients. Until now, party chat was only available to users using the console itself or when accessing the service using a computer running Windows 10.

The Razer Phone launched at the tail end of 2017, aimed at discriminating gamers who wanted a smartphone that was tailor-made for gaming. With a 5.72-inch 120Hz UltraMotion QHD display, Snapdragon 835 processor, 8 GB of RAM and a dual rear camera setup, Razer Phone certainly isn’t lacking in hardware. Still, some of us like to tweak things to get even more out of the phone, which is where the custom ROM community comes in to play. The good news is that if you’ve gone down the custom ROM route, you can now get your Razer Phone back to stock thanks to the gaming company posting factory images for the phone.

Google is considering testing the streaming gaming market and jumping directly into competition with NVIDIA and Sony, according to a new report. It would function like GeForce Now or PlayStation Now, but instead use a Chromecast or Google home console as a delivery device.

Nintendo has been hard at work adapting their major franchises for the smartphone market, and so far we’ve seen success from Mario, Fire Emblem, and Animal Crossing. Next on the list? It’s time for Mario Kart.

Titled Mario Kart Tour, Nintendo wants to try their hand at the racing genre on mobile by the end of this fiscal year.

Razer has just begun rolling out a new firmware update for its gaming-focussed Razer Phone that includes basics such as the January Security Patch, bug fixes, camera improvements as well as enabling HDR for Netflix. Join us after the break for the changelog on this new update.